Bear Montana mofldifications- pictures and descrptions please

[ballen28115]

Been reading about a few of you who reshaped the grip in this bow, others have shortened or possibly trapped the limbs.  The bow sounds like a great candidate for modifications.  Can anyone share?  Thank you.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

There is a good post in the how to's on this subject

[Austin]

If I remember right, the post in the how-to area is only about making the tips smaller. I'd be interested in seeing how people modified their grips as well.
Austin

[Rob DiStefano]

imo, there might be an ergonomic benefit to reshaping the handle, but little to gain with trapping the limbs for the efforts involved (refinishing required), and the holding weight will go down a bit as well.  

i had a newer montana and the grip felt fine - i've heard the older ones were kinda squared off and blocky - to me, that would be candidate for a handle makeover.  

what i did do to mine what clip those overly long tips ...

 http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000056

[Rob DiStefano]

Originally posted by Austin:
If I remember right, the post in the how-to area is only about making the tips smaller. I'd be interested in seeing how people modified their grips as well.
Austin

do whatever seems best for you - go grab yer rasp and have at it!  

[Pete W]

I reworked a Montana I had. The grip was terrible when I got it, almost a perfect rectangle.
 I also drasticly cut the tips in height and length. It looked better, however before I did the tips I ran it thru the chrono. Before and after was identical. Not 1FPS change. So if you are expecting a more FPS by reworking Bear Montana tips, forget it.
 Where there is a lot to be gained is by replacing the rope Bear calls a string with a good string like a 10 strand DF97, and padded loops.
 Much faster, less vibration noise and shock, and it is able to be shot a a lower brace height with a good string adding even more to the performance.

 Pete